Yes, I did have .netrc in place - which allows me to clone without password prompt. it is only the push that gave me errors. here is the trace as requested. thanks for looking into this:
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://code.google.com/p/scigest/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed panda:~/scigest[master]$ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git push * About to connect() to code.google.com port 443 (#0) * Trying 74.125.67.100... * Connected to code.google.com (74.125.67.100) port 443 (#0) * SSL connection using RC4-SHA * Server certificate: * subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=*.google.com * start date: 2011-07-27 10:11:59 GMT * expire date: 2012-07-27 10:21:59 GMT * subjectAltName: code.google.com matched * issuer: C=US; O=Google Inc; CN=Google Internet Authority * SSL certificate verify ok. > GET /p/scigest/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.7.5.3 Host: code.google.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache < HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized < WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Google Code git Repository" < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff < Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:17:27 GMT < Server: git_frontend < Content-Length: 11846 < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block < * Ignoring the response-body * Connection #0 to host code.google.com left intact * Issue another request to this URL: 'https://code.google.com/p/scigest/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack' * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host code.google.com * Connected to code.google.com (74.125.67.100) port 443 (#0) * Server auth using Basic with user '[email address]' > GET /p/scigest/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic ZndhbmcyQGdtYWlsLmNvbTo= User-Agent: git/1.7.5.3 Host: code.google.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache * The requested URL returned error: 403 * Closing connection #0 * About to connect() to code.google.com port 443 (#0) * Trying 74.125.67.100... * Connected to code.google.com (74.125.67.100) port 443 (#0) * SSL re-using session ID * SSL connection using RC4-SHA * Server certificate: * subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=*.google.com * start date: 2011-07-27 10:11:59 GMT * expire date: 2012-07-27 10:21:59 GMT * subjectAltName: code.google.com matched * issuer: C=US; O=Google Inc; CN=Google Internet Authority * SSL certificate verify ok. * Server auth using Basic with user '[email address]' > GET /p/scigest/info/refs HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Basic ZndhbmcyQGdtYWlsLmNvbTo= User-Agent: git/1.7.5.3 Host: code.google.com Accept: */* Pragma: no-cache * The requested URL returned error: 403 * Closing connection #0 error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://code.google.com/p/scigest/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code-hosting/-/naKXedbenz8J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.

